When 12 men take over an all girls school one person stands in their way. Daisy is having a bad year, first her father is arrested after a shooting, then she has been sent to live with her grandparents. Now a group of terrorist have taken over her school. This is the story of a 14 year old girl trying to survive as her world falls apart around her. Raised by her father, Daisy uses her training in Judo and knowledge of 80s and 90s action movies to make sure the terrorists' lives is a living hell. Daisy is asked after subduing a man, what are we going to do? "If they bleed, we can kill them." Littered with 80s action one liners Daisy is an ode to the genre with everything one would expect from an action flick. Daisy is a fast paced, action packed story of teenage rage and Gen X pop culture.
Before 9-11, when life was simple and all we had to worry about was the president receiving a blowjob in the oval office, I worked as a cook in a local restaurant for a year. This is a collection of stories from that time, insights into the industry, and proof that the movie Waiting is more of a documentary then a comedy. Filled with stories about crackheads, screw-ups, thieves and degenerates, Motherf*cker will entertain while educating you on the people who prepare your food. If anything this might be a diet book on how to save money by never eating out again. You have been warned.
Congress was having an emergency session. The state of emergency that they were under was becoming a new norm. Every three months was a new fight for a budget deal. They never discussed creating a budget that reduced the deficit but instead would try to justify keeping things normal. They would reduce the budget for things like health coverage, food stamps, and other social programs while their coverage stayed normal and in some cases increased because of national security. The fight was getting worse on Capitol Hill. The Tea Party had come back with a vengeance with new support from the minorities. The senators, with help of other members of the Republican Party, were hell bent on blocking the new budget. Looking at a debt of twenty trillion dollars, the public was backing the fight to cut spending and reduce cost from the government. The President flew back from Hawaii to do a few speeches for damage control and try to pass the new bill. With the Federal Reserve tapering off the flow of money into the stock market, the unemployment in the U.S. started to rise. Under-employment had already surpassed 25% and the official unemployment was quickly reaching 10%. Still Congress acted unaffected and tried to continue on as if everything was normal. CNN and the other news channels had minute to minute coverage of the battle on Capitol Hill. The senators and congressmen argued back and forth. The Republicans held their ground and the clock was ticking towards another government shutdown. The President was scheduled to deliver a speech before congress addressing the state of the economy and how things would be worse if the budget was not passed. At 9am he would take the podium. He would have taken the podium, if the podium still existed. If the Capitol Building still existed. If there was a Congress that still existed. In the flash of light that blinded the city for a split second all the problems of budget, party lines, national defense, international policy, public welfare, social security, domestic spying, terrorism, was gone. The question of who detonated the bomb was speculation. The news channels ran with the normal finger pointing towards terrorists and Al Qaeda. For the few hours they were still on the air, rumors spread and that was all they had. Talking heads with worthless information. All commerce stopped, ports were closed, trains didn't run, trucks continued on the highways but were soon dead hunks of metal when diesel was no longer delivered to gas stations. After the power went out and never came back on America was dead. That was the final bullet to the head. Communication was limited, travel was non-existent. Police no longer went to work. National Guard couldn't receive orders to show up to work. Without the delivery of food, cities soon went into chaos. With hunger came disease. In a year the population was a fraction of what it was.
Vance is a Ramen noodle snob, ladies man, and an assassin. He was recruited by the Russian mob weeks before graduating college. He never planned his life to turn out like this. After ten years he is sent to his home town for a clean up job and realizes there is another life he could have. He quits his job, but his job isn't the kind that you can walk away from.The Russian mob is determined to have Vance retired permanently and he reminds them why he was recruited to begin with.Matthew Gilman can be contacted at [email protected] He can also be found at his blog The Collapse Experiment on Wordpress.com, on Twitter @studentghetto1, and his author page on Facebook.If you enjoy this book be sure to check out his other titles: After the DayAfter the Day: Red TideRemnants of the DayRequiem for the DayWithout Styl
Samurai is the sequel to the book Ronin: A Tale of the Future Collapse. This book continues where Ronin left off. In a world with no electricity and no government, Phil travels the road with two companions in search of a man that turned his life upside down. In every town he comes across Phil is forced to set things right while trying to keep his eyes on his mission.The book also tells the return of the Reverend from the book After the Day. For those that wondered what happened to the Reverend you can get your answers here. I hope you enjoy this new installment of the Future Collapse series.
Underneath the glamour and money that built Pedigree City is a criminal foundation. Cats and dogs try to live in harmony after the end of WWII in a world that has hopefully learned from the horrors of war. Tibbs and Gonzo are cats, brothers, and homicide detectives who use their skills to keep the peace and protect the public from killers that could jeopardize a fragile peace. Their relationship is a balancing act. Tibbs is a black cat who plays by the rules and remained a straight shooter throughout his life. Gonzo on the other hand, joined the Army during the war and came back home with a few ghost in his past, to become a police officer with his brother. Together they roam the streets of Pedigree City in a burgundy Buick tracking down the latest suspect in their case. Tibbs and Gonzo is a collection of four short stories written to pay honor to the detective novels of the 1940s and 1950s, but with a twist.
Vance Longfellow has found a balance in his life between running a restaurant and working freelance solving problems for people using illegal means. Just as his complicated life with his two girlfriends is finally starting to come together an unexpected visitor uproots his life and pulls him back into the underworld of the Russian mob and international terrorism. With the promise of being out of the business forever Vance navigates through the dark underbelly of the Triad and Russian mob hoping to piece his life back together if he survives.
Hobbit Baby chronicles a father's journey through a NICU after his daughter was born at 23 weeks gestation. On May 25th 2017, Zoey was born at 1 pound 5 ounces with an unknown infection. What followed was a fight that went on for 91 days in a world foreign to her parents and family. Originally published on The Good Men Project website, Hobbit Baby is a collection of articles written as the events took place. With chapters like Baby Fight Club and What NOT to Expect When You're Expecting you can follow the ups and downs of parenting a micro-preemie baby. This is not a guidebook for parents going through this kind of experience, but it is a way to know that you are not alone. Matthew Gilman is the author of several books available via Amazon. This is his first non-fiction book. He lives in Kalamazoo, MI.
